Haiti and its multiple tragedies: Much more needs to be done

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla

No 26, LAC working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Haiti has been suffering for many decades a damaging combination of climate and natural disasters and political, economic, social, and health crises. Just in the last months there was the terrible assassination of a sitting president on July 2021; an extremely damaging earthquake of 7.2 magnitude on August 2021; the heart-wrenching images of Haitians at the US-Mexican border in September 2021; the expansion of gang activity with the kidnapping of US missionaries in October 2021; the more recent alarming episode of the shooting at the current interim Prime Minister in January 2022; and another earthquake of 5.3 magnitude in late January, to name only the more recent sequence of very bad events affecting the country.

Keywords: crises; natural disasters; social protection; development policies; social safety nets; corruption; health hazards; governance; Haiti; Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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